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March 2023

Researchers for change: engagement, mobilization and impact at the graduate level.

Researchers for Change: Co-Creating Knowledge with Non-Academic Partners

Co-creation of knowledge with non-academic partners can be both rewarding and challenging. Ultimately, such collaborations can be one of the most effective ways to increase the uptake and impact of research. What can it look like for graduate students to participate in community-engaged partnerships?

Entering the Conversation: Racialized Peoples and Indigenous-Settler Conciliation

As Canada grows more diverse, how can racialized peoples better enter into conversations about settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, self-determination, and reconciliation?  Join us for an engaging panel discussion about racialized peoples and Indigenous-settler conciliation. All the panelists are from particular South Asian (and mixed European) heritages, but the conversation draws on common experiences of racialized peoples and communities. No registration required.

Truscott Lecture in Justice 2023

Join Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michael Moldaver as he reflects on the state of the Canadian Criminal Justice System. From his unique vantage point as a former criminal defence lawyer and retiring Supreme Court justice, he will offer a critical assessment of how the system operates and how it might be improved.  It will be an event not-to-be-missed for anyone interested in Canadian criminal justice, its past, and its future!
Researchers for change: engagement, mobilization and impact at the graduate level

Researchers for Change: Graduate Students as Actors of Change

Graduate students can be powerful actors of change on and off campus. From reflecting on why we are interested in the topics we are studying to discussing how we build skills to become engaged practitioners, this session asks graduate students to consider how we prepare ourselves for this work and what support we might need to develop and maintain relationships inside and outside of the academic community. We will discuss questions such as:

February 2023 Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: Lessons to be Learned

Join Dr. Evren Altinkas as we discuss how a lack of infrastructure and state capacity hampered the official response to the earthquake, and how a civilian network helped fill in the gaps. Dr Altinkas will also share insights from the 1999 Golcuk earthquake, which he experienced personally, and draw comparisons with more recent events. Register for the virtual event

Making Space for Progress: Internationalizing the University as Social Justice

The University of Guelph's Strategic Refresh highlights the commitment of the university to “further international relationships” as a part of its overall pillar of community connection.  The University has also taken measures to advance and entrench equity, diversity and inclusion into its core values and deliverables.  We welcome a guest speaker to aide us to contemplate the implications and possibilities of those intersections and offers an innovation of academic internationalization praxis undergirded by social justice
Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Politics of Abortion in the Post-Roe Era

Roe v. Wade Overturned: The Politics of Abortion in the Post-Roe Era

With the strokes of five pens, in 2022 the US Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, a right that had been expanded almost half a century earlier. What are the implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision for politics? Join Professor Jordi Díez as he moderates a panel of experts to discuss the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade.